On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Alfred Zett <[email protected]> wrote:
> That was exactly my thought, so I figured it couldn't harm to have these >> a Tab is exactly what you described. > > No. It's only half of what I described. > It's still a typographical character that implies whitespace and may appear > everywhere in the text. How would your proposed character be displayed as plain text? >>> - A codepoint for string literal quotes, that would spare one the >>> escaping. >> >> How would this work exactly? > > Imagine you type " in your IDE, but because your IDE does know that this new > programming language requires this special character as literal token, it > replaces it with a special looking quotation mark. Unicode is a standard for plain text. If you require a special IDE for your programming language then why use plain text at all? _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
